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Why do we call some countries a different name than the people of that country?
For example, in English we say Germany, Japan, and China but they say Deutschland, Nihon, and Zhongguo respectively.
If we change the names because they are difficult to say or spell outside of their ...
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Does Chinese have proper nouns and are they distinguished morphosyntactically or only lexically and or semantically?
In an earlier question I wanted to learn about the nature of proper nouns in a language-neutral way, but the comments and answers to that question so far state that this is not possible, that only ...
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How are proper nouns distinguished from other nouns in linguistics (not in orthography)?
When you ask most people the difference between common nouns and proper nouns they mostly can only tell you that proper nouns start with a capital letter.
But this has problems:
Capital letters and ...
